December 18th
This was a totally sessile day, except for exercising.

December 16 and 17th
Both mornings, my Mom had meetings, so I hung out, and exercised, too. On the afternoon of the 16th, we walked to a special donut shop. It had Armenian donuts, which are fried dough with cream inside, and powdered sugar on top. We also had green lemonade. Then we went to the huge manuscript repository/museum next door. I didn't like it, but my mom liked the 5th century ivory book covers, and the books on palm leaves, and birch bark. On the afternoon of the 17th, we went to the Armenian history and art museums. The only thing that was interesting there to me was an ancient cart (I think 12th century) that had big wooden wheels, and some 18th century Russian imperial porcelian that had really funny pictures on it of men getting drunk, and gambling, and teasing birds with cats. We had dinner at a traditional Armenian folk restaurant, called My Village. They had lots of old stuff, like a gramophone, and loud folk singers. I also talked to my grandmoms and my Dad on Skype.